Alexander Fraser Tytler

(1747-1813)

Alexander Fraser Tytler, son of the antiquary William Tytler, studied at Edinburgh University. He passed the bar in 1770 and was judge-advocate of Scotland (1790). Tytler was professor of history at Edinburgh (1780), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a contributor to The Mirror and The Lounger. He was a friend of James Beattie, as was his father.

Phineas Fletcher, Piscatory eclogues, ed. Tytler. 1771.Considerations on the game law. 1772.Plan and outlines of a course of lectures on universal history. 1782.Essay on the life and character of Plutarch. 1784; 1810.Essay on the principles of translation. 1791; 1813.The robbers, a tragedy [Schiller, trans.] 1792.An essay on military law. 1800.Elements of general history, ancient and modern. 3 vols, 1801.Memoirs of the life and writings of ... Henry Home, Lord Kames. 1807.Travels in France, during the years 1814-1815. 2 vols, 1815.Universal history, ed. Tytler. 6 vols, 1834.